As relações dialógicas em contos de Irene Lisboa

Abstract

The aims of this work is to verify the functioning of the dialogical relations connections among some short stories of the Portuguese writer Irene Lisboa (1892-1958) with the narratives traditional, observing how she presents some of her female characters in the analyzed short stories. For that, Mikhail Bakhtin‟s postulates are activated, especially the dialogism, understood as the different voices which intertwine the discursive construction. The reading of the structure of the fairy tales, built by Bruno Bettelheim, is also mobilized to think about the maintenance or resignification of the previous senses in the narrative of Lisboa. The semantic characterization of the symbolic elements, present in the narrative of Irene Lisboa, is clarified through the Dictionary of Symbols. Therefore, from the research corpus, formed from six short stories of Irene Lisboa – three stories from the work “Queres ouvir? Eu conto (Do you want to hear? I tell you”) – Stories for adults and children entertain each other and three stories from the work “A hand full of nothing, another one with nothing more” – and from the theoretical base we build up an interpretative gesture aiming to answer the following questionings: How are the characters built in the short stories of Irene Lisboa? Which voices are activated from the reading of her stories? Does her discursive construction present traits which refer to conceptions of patriarchal society model? Do the characters of the stories adhere or not to this model? Consequently, the examination of the discursive construction allows to conclude that some characters of the short stories analyzed break, in some moments, with the social models of the patriarchal Portugal, exemplified with the main character of “Maria-a-Macha‟ and “A flauta mágica”. However, they finally return to this parameter, with the exception of the main character of the story “Maria” who does not agree to the model, and, consequently, is accepted. The transformation related to the patriarchal model, generally, doesn‟t take place. It is possible to observe that some characters, besides going through the process of transformation in relation to the phases of their lives, they are destroyed of their beauty, differentiating from the main characters of the fairy tales, which are exuberantly described. Considering the dialogical relation, the short stories studied are related to fairy tales, in special “Cinderella”.